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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Free Will, Confabulations, and Schizophrenia
I have often been surprised at how many people, when I say something like “I don’t believe in free will”, are completely and utterly surprised. For the most part, I almost assume that most of my friends, or acquaintances, who … Continue reading
Posted in History, Mental Health, Philosophy, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged beliefs, brain, capgras, Change Blindness, Confabulations, Consciousness, crazy, david chalmers, Dawkins, Dennett, descartes, dualism, edward o. wilson, Free Will, freud, gazzaniga, ghost in the machine, henry molaison, HM, materialism, memory, Mental Health, Multiple Drafts Model, multiple personality disorder, neurology, neuroscience, oliver sacks, pavlov, Peter Watson, phineas gage, Pinker, prosopagnosia, Psychology, schizophrenia, skinner, soul, split brain, theory of mind, tickle
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US 1940s Study Involved Giving Syphylis to Guatemalans, Discovered by Women’s and Gender Studies Professor
Turns out that in 1946, US governmental medical researchers purposely infected 695 Guatemalan prisoners, insane asylum inmates, and prisoners with syphilis and gonorrhea. Link to the research paper that brought this to light: linky. She found this by researching the Tuskegee syphilis experiments (the differences … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, History, Mental Health, Politics, Science
Tagged 1946, gonorrhea, guatamala, gutamalans, medical research, syphilis, tusktegee, united states
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